Irmãos Lumière - Cinematógrafo

Louis Lumière and his brother Auguste created a motion picture camera that was better than the Kinetoscope. The Cinematograph only weighed 16 pounds so it could be easily transported. It was manually operated by a hand-crank and it could project movies onto a screen to be viewed by a large audience of people. The cinematograph became very popular and was shown during vaudeville acts and in nickelodeons.

Eadweard Muybridge English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. Today, Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.

Sallie Gardner at a Gallop is a series of photographs consisting of a galloping horse, the result of a photographic experiment by Eadweard Muybridge on June 15, 1878. Sometimes cited as an early silent film, the series and later experiments like it were precursors to the development of motion pictures. The series consists of 24 photographs shot in rapid succession that were shown on a zoopraxiscope. #gallop, #muybridge, #horse, #photography

A Trip to the Moon/Le Voyage dans la Luna (1902)

The first major fictional cinematic film exploring this enduring transcultural fantasy was titled Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) and made in 1902, becoming one of the most popular movies of the early years of the twentieth century. The silent film starred the filmmaker Georges Melies himself and portrayed a club of astronomers voyaging to the Moon and back. Pictured above is a frame from the movie that has become an enduring icon for both film and space. Alluding to a bullseye trajectory, the Man in the Moon is caricatured as being struck by the human-built spaceship. The entire 14-minute film is now freely available. Visiting the Moon remained a very popular topic even 67 years later in 1969 when humans first made an actual voyage.

Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above the street in the famous scene from "Safety Last!" (1923). This is one of the most enduring images in all of cinema. Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947.

Classic Harold Lloyd Love his movie classic, "Safety Last." This is what our kitchen clock looks like. There's a cut-out of Harold hanging on to the minute hand and he turns with it as the time passes

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The World's first movie poster?

La Belle Époque, "Beautiful Era", was a period in French history that is conventionally dated as starting in 1890 and ending when World War I began in 1914. Occurring during the era of the Third French Republic, it was a period characterized by optimism, peace at home and in Europe, new technology and scientific discoveries. The peace and prosperity in Paris allowed the arts to flourish, and many masterpieces of literature, music, theater, and visual art gained recognition.